joyful - Story 80995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. Amelia stared at the notification, her heart skipping a beat. It was the email. She reread the words, each sentence sending a fresh wave of warmth through her. Her application essay was now online.

She felt a giddy lightness, a feeling that she could float away. She felt a strong urge to dance, right there in her kitchen. Instead, she put on her favorite song, turned the volume all the way up, and starting clapping her hands.

She opened the fridge and pulled out a bottle of sparkling cider, pouring herself a celebratory glass. This was a dream come true, and she was going to savor every single moment.

Emotion: joyful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.96 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion joyful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 joyful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the joyful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the joyful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.615
`de`	0.600
`!`	0.572
`excitedly`	0.552
`enthusi`	0.533

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.893
`ness`	-0.513
`😞`	-0.470
`😣`	-0.337
`L`	-0.334